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« Reply #9 on: Friday 11 April 08 20:10 BST (UK) »
Thanks, i had just gone back to my research to narrow him down and yes I can confirm my ancester was Wyndham Terrell Fussel.  The record is the first that I now have for any relatives active service in WW1, so I am chuffed to bits, thanks. Adrian
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« Reply #10 on: Friday 11 April 08 21:18 BST (UK) »
Picked up his record, thanks for helping solve that one everyone. Adrian
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« Reply #11 on: Friday 11 April 08 21:38 BST (UK) »
If you've downloaded the card, feel free to post it here and we'll help interpret it.
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« Reply #12 on: Sunday 13 April 08 21:24 BST (UK) »
Hi,  Thanks for the offer, please find the sttached. Adrian
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« Reply #13 on: Sunday 13 April 08 21:35 BST (UK) »
Interesting 2nd Regt...The 34th London...Or so it reads! Mind you from others I have found that is certainly a 34th bn regt number...

Formed in Clacton-on-Sea in June 1918. On 18 June, the bn absorbed the cadre of the 7th Bn, the Kings Royal Rifle Corps, and joined the 49th Brigade, 16th Division.
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« Reply #14 on: Sunday 13 April 08 21:52 BST (UK) »
Your miles ahead of me scrimnet, sorry.  Are the 34th London part of the Somerset Light or are they seperate and if so why did he change regiments?  Why does someone have two army numbers?
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« Reply #15 on: Sunday 13 April 08 21:57 BST (UK) »
Don't be sorry matey!!!

He has changed Regts...As to why...who knows...he may have been downgraded...There is no "date of entry into theatre" on his card...it's empty...

The number given to a soldier is a Regimental number not a Service number, so when he changed Regts, he changed number...

The 34th London are in no way connected to the SLI...A mystery really at the moment!
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« Reply #16 on: Sunday 13 April 08 22:17 BST (UK) »
That's what I like, a mystery to solve.
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« Reply #17 on: Sunday 26 October 08 15:53 GMT (UK) »
Hi,

     Further to my original post, I now have further information on Wyn Fussell.  He was in the army in India (as the attached uniform and cap badge picture).  He still has the swagger stick but I am told it was commocn amongst many ranks there.
    He went from India to fight in the Middle East (I am told Palestine fighting a Turkish invasion which doesn't sound right to me).  Here he was injured in the leg by artillery shrapnel. After recovery in England he went straight to the trenches on the western front.
    Numerous questions arise.
    What was his Indian Regiment?
    Would he have been fighting the Turks in Palestine?
    As to the replies in the original post, I wonder if he was an injured long service war weary soldier it might explain his rather sloppy dress sense?  I am still told he was an NCO.

 
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